Advice Request Prevent 3rd-Party Apps from "Spying" within Firefox

[Ink]

The Negative Impact of using Firefox Accessibility Service:

• Impact Firefox browsing performance
• May be monitoring your web surfing activity
• Stability may be adversely affected

Examples of Accessibility Services:
ability to inspect, monitor, visualize, and alter web page content hosted within Firefox

• Assistive Technologies
  • Do not disable Firefox Accessibility Service if you or someone who shares your device accesses the web through Firefox using any type of physical impairment assistive software. (Intended use of Firefox Accessibility Service).
• Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware Browser Plugins
  • Often described as "browser protections" promoting security improvements, these features rarely add valuable security to Firefox and other browsers. Most are poorly designed and poorly tested, and can inadvertently disable more effective security measures built into Firefox.
• Enterprise or Educational Monitoring and Access
• Niche Shareware or Freeware applications
  • Mozilla does not support or sanction this use of Accessibility Service.
• Malware and Adware
  • Abused by malware, if present, to monitor user behavior or access user information on the web.

Learn more at What is the Accessibility Service Indicator? | Firefox Help

How to Disable Firefox Accessibility Services

Firefox users can Block All 3rd Party applications from "spying" on their browser by enabling the following Privacy & Security setting as shown below:

• Prevent accessibility services from accessing your browser (Browser Restart required)

about:preferences#privacy

 

[tonibalas]

Instant and visible improvement in FF performance.
From the moment i enabled this setting pages are opening much faster.
Thanks @Spawn for the tip

 

[TrinitronMSDOS]

Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately i can't deactivate this setting as Dashlane will probably won't work if it is turned off (Dashlane have the desktop app that communicates with browsers add-ons).

 

[Prorootect]

Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately i can't deactivate this setting as Dashlane will probably won't work if it is turned off (Dashlane have the desktop app that communicates with browsers add-ons).

So change, to extension/add-on :
On Firefox you have: bitwarden - Free Password Manager: bitwarden - Free Password Manager – Add-ons for Firefox

On Chrome you have: Dashlane - Password Manager: Dashlane - Password Manager

 

[TrinitronMSDOS]

So change, to extension/add-on :
On Firefox you have: bitwarden - Free Password Manager: bitwarden - Free Password Manager – Add-ons for Firefox

On Chrome you have: Dashlane - Password Manager: Dashlane - Password Manager

Thanks for the tip, that's a good idea. It might be a good occasion to try out Bitwarden. I've read good things about it and love softwares made by real security professionals

 

[Prorootect]

TrinitronMSDOS change, fine opportunity for you

"love softwares made by real security professionals " - yes!